Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society
Apr 1, 2020
OBJECTIVES: The prognosis for pharyngeal cancer is relatively poor. It is usually diagnosed in an advanced stage. Although the recent development of narrow-band imaging (NBI) and increased awareness among endoscopists have enabled detection of superf...
Recently, the prospect of applying machine learning tools for automating the process of annotation analysis of large-scale sequences from next-generation sequencers has raised the interest of researchers. However, finding research collaborators with ...
The diversity in our genome is crucial to understanding the demographic history of worldwide populations. However, we have yet to know whether subtle genetic differences within a population can be disentangled, or whether they have an impact on compl...
BACKGROUND: MRI scanning has revolutionized the clinical diagnosis of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). However, there is currently no consensus as to how best to classify MRI findings which has hampered the development of robust longitudinal epidemiolog...
This paper presents a novel bed-leaving sensor system for real-time recognition of bed-leaving behavior patterns. The proposed system comprises five pad sensors installed on a bed, a rail sensor inserted in a safety rail, and a behavior pattern recog...
Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs
Feb 28, 2020
Future development of innovative artificial organs is closely related with cutting edge emerging technology. These technologies include brain machine or computer interface, organs made by three dimensional bioprinting, organs designed from induced-pl...
OBJECTIVE: To apply artificial intelligence (AI) for automated identification of corneal condition and prediction of the likelihood of need for future keratoplasty intervention from optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based corneal parameters.
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Feb 24, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Conventional anthropometric studies using Kinect depth sensors have concentrated on estimating the distances between two points such as height. This paper deals with a novel waist measurement method using SVM regression, fur...
Geriatrics & gerontology international
Feb 19, 2020
AIM: The primary aim of this study was to examine the impact of age, gender and the stage of dementia on the results of an assistive technology intervention that make use of communication robots (com-robots). The intervention was designed to improve ...
General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Feb 13, 2020
OBJECTIVES: Robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) for primary lung cancer has been spreading rapidly in Japan. While RATS has various technical advantages over video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), the quality of surgery from an oncologi...
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